University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard Agrees to $53 Million Settlement in Body Parts Theft Case
The University will compensate families of those whose remains were sold and establish a scholarship to honor anatomical donors.
President Drew Faust’s Harvard valedictory
President Faust’s Commencement afternoon valedictory address on hope and higher education
Crimmigration: Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges
Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges.
Harvard governing-board appointments
A business leader and a college president join the Corporation.
University People
S. Allen Counter, undergraduate-education dean, teaching prizes, and more
New deans, graduate student union, faculty diversity, and a final-club update
Two new deans, a graduate-student union, modest gains in faculty diversity, and a final-club update
Brevia
Mass Hall makeover, Adams House renewal on deck, quantitative biology, and more
Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968
A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.
Mass Hall Facelift
Presidents Faust, Bacow relocated as the renovations proceed
A celebration of Matthew Meselson
A symposium honors a scientist who championed biological and chemical weapons control.
Risk-Taking Lizards
How lizards’ behavior influences natural selection